WWF caught in $60 billion conflict of interest

This from Christopher Booker:

If the world’s largest, richest environmental campaigning group, the WWF – formerly the World Wildlife Fund – announced that it was playing a leading role in a scheme to preserve an area of the Amazon rainforest twice the size of Switzerland, many people might applaud, thinking this was just the kind of cause the WWF was set up to promote. Amazonia has long been near the top of the list of the world’s environmental cconcerns, not just because it includes easily the largest and most bio-diverse area of rainforest on the planet, but because its billions of trees contain the world’s largest land-based store of CO2 – so any serious threat to the forest can be portrayed as a major contributor to global warming.

If it then emerged, however, that a hidden agenda of the scheme to preserve this chunk of the forest was to allow the WWF and its partners to share the selling of carbon credits worth $60 billion, to enable firms in the industrial world to carry on emitting CO2 just as before, more than a few eyebrows might be raised. The idea is that credits representing the CO2 locked into this particular area of jungle – so remote that it is not under any threat – should be sold on the international market, allowing thousands of companies in the developed world to buy their way out of having to restrict their carbon emissions. The net effect would simply be to make the WWF and its partners much richer while making no contribution to lowering overall CO2 emissions

Read the rest here. Scandal, in my view, and more evidence for ordinary people that the intelligentsia are conning them over the climate change issue.

It is, and always has been, about money, power and control.

Comments

[AFS]

search Google news for WWF it's all over there, Delingpole, Booker.

The MSM won't pick it up; the WWF has a cute panda as a logo.

[AFS]

Ironic how the contextual Google ads are about carbon trading.

You too can be part of the fraud!

[Ross]

" It is, and always has been,about money,power and control"
That sums it up exactly as it is , Ian.
But I cannot understand why the "average" environmentlist has not worked this out and how the whole scam has put their cause back 20+ yrs in the eyes of alot of the public.
( Like many others who disagree with the AGW theory , I am not against all of the issues raised by the "Greens")

[Leon]

Why don't the greens campaign to remove Sodium fluoride from our water supply, or at least educate the sedated public?(Mass medication with a corrosive poison that causes bone cancer, and calcification of the pituitary gland which causes sedation and an inability to think logically, which is why Stalin used it in his camps)

[Ronald]

Leon, the tiny amount of fluoride put into drinking water is a very safe dose. Don't forget that excessive salt is poisonous - contains chlorine! Excessive water intake will kill you.